How to Make Ultimate Garlic butter shrimp

Bess Mullins   11/06/2020 16:42

Garlic butter shrimp
Garlic butter shrimp

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, garlic butter shrimp. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Garlic butter shrimp is juicy, flavorful, and makes for the perfect weeknight meal. Garlic butter shrimp with sauce is topped over warm white rice. It can be eaten without any additional condiments because it is tasty by itself.

Garlic butter shrimp is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Garlic butter shrimp is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook garlic butter shrimp using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Garlic butter shrimp:
  1. Prepare 3 lbs shrimp with heads
  2. Prepare 1 cup unsalted butter (or 1/2 cup margarine)
  3. Take 1 tbsp minced garlic
  4. Get Pinch salt
  5. Take Pinch pepper

Shrimp tossed in a rich garlic butter sauce is hard to compete with. This recipe is quick enough to pull off on a busy weeknight, but feels special enough for a Saturday night in, too. How you serve it is up. This garlic butter shrimp is one of my go-to recipes when I have to hit the kitchen running.

Steps to make Garlic butter shrimp:
  1. Melt butter on a sauce pan on fire set on medium heat.
  2. Put shrimp. I used shrimp with heads because it's more savory.
  3. Stir occassionally, make sure that the shrimp turns bright orange. (No gray spots like in the photo)
  4. Add minced garlic and stir. (Garlic is more aromatic for me if added later than the main ingredient IMO).
  5. You will know that the garlic butter sauce penetrated the shell if the shrimp shrinks a little that it will have a space between the meat and the shell. (Yes, too specific I know. 🥴😝)
  6. Toast the garlic a little. (Optional) Serve and enjoy.

It takes just twenty minutes to make, I always have all of the ingredients on hand, the kids love it as much as I do. Inspired by traditional shrimp scampi, we swap lemon for lime and parsley for cilantro. Serve these delicious garlic butter shrimp. Lemon juice, parsley, brown butter, and plenty of garlic make these shrimp irresistible. This garlic shrimp with butter and seasonings is so easy to make.

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